Today Uganda announced a bill to legalize murdering gay people. National Christian Organization paid a preacher to go to Uganda and help their lawmakers with the bill. Chick-fil-a funds National Christian Org.

Chick-fil-A’s only connection to any of this is that its owners — not the company — through their separate foundation donate to the National Christian Foundation, the 8th-largest nonprofit in the U.S. That foundation works with Christian charitable groups. And there’s a weak connection between a tiny percentage of the groups NCF works with and anti-LGBT ministers in Uganda. Yet connecting those groups to ministers does not connect them to this legislation. Even Snopes admits “it’s not clear to what extent National Christian Foundation-funded entities were involved in the creation or promotion of a bill to make homosexuality punishable by death.”

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That “hoax”, as the story is justifiably called in one of your links, is one of the most ridiculous accusations of anti-gay animus I have ever had the displeasure of reading.

Quite literally, they connected Chick-Fil-A to a preacher who condemned the Uganda law.

That wasn’t what the accusation intended to argue, but that’s what it did. Really it was an investigation in search of a condemnation. They searched every single person who ever went to Uganda until they found exactly one who could be plausibly painted into a poster child of bad faith. All to express hatred toward a restaurant and an owner who has the temerity to believe that marriage is only between a man and a woman.

I tried Chick-Fil-A once, and that was enough. I just can’t see the attraction. Sugared up sub par chicken on a squishy, soggy bun. Ugh! Give me Popeye’s or Wendy’s chicken sandwiches anytime! I avoid CFA for their food, not their faith.

I am going to go out on a limb, as it were, and say that the human rights nightmare unfolding in places like Uganda is more important than a fast-food eatery.

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